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Title: Sealing
Contributor: Om Prakash
Dayasaran
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1986
1986-05-01
Publication Information: Rajaghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (India)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Modern Endangered Archives Program
Collection: AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Seal with inscription
This object was housed at the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India at the time of photography in 1986. possibly executed in-between 300 - 599 CE. it was recovered from Rajaghat in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh. The object is in oval shape and its dimensions are 5.7 (H) x 4.6 (W) cm. Museum accession number of the object at the time of documentation was 6311. Inscription on the seal is translated as either 'Charaka / Charana".
Type: image
Identifier: 92533
ark:/21198/z1xx077m
(620.1 - 620.100), Box 620.94
Subject: Artefact
Terracottas (sculptural works)
Stamp seal
Source: AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides

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